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If you were overpaid unemployment insurance, the Biden administration says you should be able to keep some

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When COVID-19 hit the United States, millions of Americans were thrown out of work — some 14 million between February and May 2020 alone — with claims for unemployment following in kind. Governments, and applicants, made mistakes: according to a recent report, states ended up doling out $6.2 billion in overpayments.

Now the US Department of Labor has issued guidance to states that recommends letting people keep that extra money, so long as they did not commit fraud to get it.

“Amid the pandemic, state Unemployment Insurance programs did the best they could in the details ⇒

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